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(No Model.)

D. DANIEL.

PLOW.

' No. 550,318. Patented Nov. 26, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL DANIEL, OF LONOKE, ARKANSAS.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,318, dated November26, 1895.

Application filed October 9, 1894:. Serial No. 525,332. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL DANIEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lonoke, in the county of Lonoke and State of Arkansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention is in the nature of a combined plow, potato-digger, andsubsoil-cultivator attachments to be used on any ordinary plowstock; andit consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement ofparts, all of which are hereinafter fully described in thisspecification and in the claims hereunto attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of myimprovement, showing the potato-digger and cultivator-wings 3. Fig. 2 isa front view of the body 1, to which the various attachments aresecured. Fig. 3 is a front view of an assemblage of parts forming adouble-turning plow. Fig. 4 is a front view of the body 1 having thecultivatorwings secured thereto. Fig. 5 is in part a cross-sectionalview of Fig. 2 on the line a; 00. Fig. 6 is an elevation of one of thepotatodiggers 3 and cultivator attachments.

My invention is described as follows:

1 represents the body portion, to which is secured the point 2 and thepotato-digger and cultivator-wing attachments 3. The body 1 consists ofa central portion 4, provided with a countersunk bolt-hole 5, throughwhich a bolt is passed to secure the body to the plowstandard. Said body1 is a segment, and is provided with flanges 6, recesses 7, flanges 8,and a downward extension 9. Said flanges 6 are provided with bolt-holesfor securing the wings thereto, and the downward extension 9 is alsoprovided with bolt-holes for securing the point 10 to the same. At thepoint where the flanges 6 turn out from the body 1 there are grooves 11,Fig. 5, for the inner edges of the attachments 3, 12, and 13 to rest in,and the flanges 8 on the upper edge of the bodyl are for the extensions14 of the attachments to rest against. The bolt-holes 5in the body 1 areflared inwardly at their outer ends, so that when the bolts 15, Fig. 3,are passed through the bolt-holes in the point 2 they may be readilyforced through the bolt-holes 5. These bolt-holes 5 are made thusflaring, because in casting two pieces of metal it is difficult to andsometimes wefail in getting the bolt-holes toregister correctly.

My plow when put up according to Fig. 1 has wing attachments 3, providedwith downward points 16, leaving on each side of the point 2 openings17, and said attachments are also provided with fingers 18, so that thedirt may pass between the fingers left in making said slots. Thus thisconstruction pulverizes the dirt when we are breaking it up andpreparing it for cultivation, and it acts as a sort of sieve in diggingpotatoes, letting the dirt fall back while it throws the potatoes upinto the front.

When constructed as shown in Fig. 3, it is a double shovel; but it maybe used with only one of the attachments 12, in which case it wouldbecome a turning-plow. When put up as shown in Fig. 4, with a pointattached, (not necessarily the point shown by the number 2, but anysuitable point,) it becomes a cultivator.

I do not claim the point 2, nor do I confine myself to the use of thispoint; nor do I claim the wings 13. The new and important features whichare mine are the recesses 7, (see Fig. 2,) flanges 8, grooves 11, Fig.5, flared boltholes 5, Figs. 2, 4, and 5, wings 3 and 12, adapted to fitthe body 1, grooves 11, and recesses 7.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is--v 1. In a plow, constructed substantially asshown and described, the combination with the plow stock and standards,of the body 1, provided with a central countersunk bolt hole 5, flaredbolt holes 5', recesses 7, flanges 8, grooves 11 and perforated flanges6; plow point 2, and wing attachments 3, provided with fingers 18 anddownward extensions 16, substantially as shown and described and for thepurposes set forth.

2. In combination with a plow stock, the

body, having a central countersunk bolt hole I11 testimony whereof Iaffix my signature flared bolt holes, one on each side of the down inpresence of two Witnesses. ward extension 9; recesses 7, flanges 8, and

grooves 11; said body adapted to carrya per- DAN. DANIEL. foratedplowpoint, and perforated Wings,sub- \Vitnesses:

stantiallyas shovm and described and for the GEO. HOOVEY RULE, Jr.

purposes set forth. JAS. F. CLEMENTS.

